UN to cut off medicine to Haiti
Published:Tuesday | February 9, 2010 | 1:00 PM
The United Nations (UN) has warned that it will cut off shipments of free medicine beginning immediately to Haitian hospitals with reports that patients are being charged for the medication.
When the catastrophic earthquake struck January 12, authorities immediately decided to make all medical care free of cost.
More than 200 international medical relief groups have sent in teams to help, and millions of dollars of donated medicine has been flown in.
UN officials told The Associated Press today that about a dozen hospitals both public and private have begun charging patients for medicine.
The officials said they could not immediately provide the names of the hospitals but indicated that they were in several parts of the country, including Port-au-Prince.